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Concerns for Women's Health
… Concerns for Women's Health 'The Epidemiology and Political Economy of Cervical Cancer in El Salvador' … In its pre-cancerous stages, the disease is curable, and proper medical screening and care could save these women. May graduate Juno …
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Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President: May 8, 2019
… or soon will be. Commencement events for our 295 graduates and their families begin with a Division III gallery exhibit … running all next week, then the Division III Project and Performance Showcase next Friday, capped by an evening reception for students, families, and our community. Saturday, May 18 will mark Hampshire’s …
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Hampshire Nominated for Webby Award for Best Mobile Site
… College has been named one of five finalists among schools and universities worldwide by the Webby Awards, the leading … by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and a People’s Voice Award, judged by voters. To vote online …
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Faculty Take Learning Outside the Classroom for First-Year Students
… idea was to take the innovative approach of the tutorials and add more faculty–student interaction, more time outside the classroom, and, as Dean for Academic Support Rachel Rubinstein says, “to build community right away.” Dean of Enrollment and Retention Meredith Twombly says the new model was great …
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2010 Convocation Speech by Patricia Klindienst 71F
… years ago that I would be standing here addressing new and returning students, faculty and staff, and thanking parents for trusting their kid's choice of …
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OPRA's Karen Warren Selected to Give 2014 Kurt Hahn Address
… 2014 Kurt Hahn Address Hampshire College Outdoor Programs and Recreational Athletics (OPRA) instructor Karen Warren … award. It recognizes Warren for innovative programming and numerous publications and presentations in the United States and beyond. "It is …
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Hampshire Highlighted in AASHE's 2014 Sustainability Review
… toward high-impact transformative learning projects and partnerships to advance sustainability on a local and global front.” In its annual review , the Association for … trends in the higher education sustainability movement and tracks the rise in campus sustainability planning and …
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Photo Books Become Home for a Divided Family
… family had lived in different cities in Texas, California, and Massachusetts. But this time, while packing and unpacking, Hermano found something that made her rethink … II, she made a series of portraits related to biology and genetics. Her project was about “the way your genotype, …
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Open-Access Education: Students Win When Schools Team Up
… have taken a different approach: to collaborate and partner, across public and private education. And the winners are students, educators, and the communities …
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Faculty
Myrna Breitbart
… Breitbart Myrna Breitbart, professor emerita of geography and urban studies, has an A.B. and Ph.D. from Clark University. Her teaching and research interests focus on the gender, race, and class …
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KIMBERLY CHANG's NEW BOOK EARNS NATIONAL ACCLAIM
… to Memory weaves together fiction, anthropology, and memoir Kimberly Chang, associate professor of cultural … of occupation by the Japanese, World War II, a civil war, and the Communist revolution. Published under her Chinese … that stands at the crossroads of fiction, memoir, history, and anthropology. It has garnered praise in, among other …
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Student Research on the Hampshire College Farm: Raising Pigs Outdoors in Natural Settings
… outdoor settings; she's researching the nutritional and animal-welfare benefits of a pasture versus a woodlot. … Old Spots has also been a hands-on lesson in pig breeding and the business of livestock farming. Nugent began her studies of swine physiology and nutrition by working on the Hampshire College Farm, which …
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Getting Off the Grid Through the R.W. Kern Center Solar Challenge Initiative
… roof will be the primary means of generating that energy, and the R.W. Kern Center Solar Challenge Initiative began … the Tern Foundation’s Tern SOLAR Challenge Grant Program and a $58,000 gift from an anonymous donor, the goal of the … is paving a path toward innovation, transformation, and social responsibility. The Kern Center promises to serve …
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Experimental Pinhole Photo Exhibit by Hampshire Alum to Debut at Campus Gallery
… photographs were taken during Freedberg’s travels in Italy and India. The exhibit is one of two running simultaneously … Model Gallery, the other is a show of large-scale black and white photographs by Anna Collette entitled "Gathering … graduated from Hampshire in 1985 with a BA in photography and received her MFA in photography from the School of the …
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Hampshire Oral History: Ken Rosenthal Remembers The Founding Years
… History Collection , in the Hampshire College Archives and Special Collections . AM: Ken, how did you first became … was big news, in the New York Times [in August 1965], and I read about it one morning sitting in a law office in Newark, New Jersey. I was a graduate of Amherst College and I’d worked for the College the year previously, for Chuck …
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'Quidditch' as Artificial Intelligence Experiment
… version of the rapid-fire game played by young witches and warlocks in J.K. Rowling's series of Harry Potter novels. … terms, teams learn what behavior is desirable by surviving and their desirable traits get passed along in the … In Crawford-Marks' project, titled "Virtual Witches and Warlocks: Computational Evolution of Teamwork and …
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Nathan Kensinger Finds Beauty in Forgotten Spaces
… in Forgotten Spaces Brigid Gorry-Hines 11F Abandoned and ruined areas have always fascinated photographer and documentary filmmaker Nathan Kensinger 97F . Currently … airports, hospitals, schools, factories, boat graveyards, and landfills. In his work, Kensinger exposes forgotten …
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Immigration, Incarceration, State Power: 20th-Annual Eqbal Ahmad Symposium Slated for November
… of the Eqbal Ahmad Symposium with activist panels and lectures on the topics of immigration, incarceration, and state power. The events are free and open to the public. On Thursday, November 9, at 4 p.m. in …
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Mellon Foundation Awards Five Colleges $800,000 for Online Museum Collections
… can share their online collections with each other and the world. The current shared collections database at Five Colleges was developed more than 20 years ago, and this commitment to a consortial database has enriched collaboration across the Five Colleges and opened up discovery and access to museum collections for …
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From Chaos Theory to Outlaw Emotion, A Div III Short Story Collection
… up to see what random bit of information might take hold and weave itself into the text. For as long as she can … just as essential. "I'm really opposed to letter grading and testing. I wanted to go to college, but I couldn't stand … College's academic approach would give both the freedom and support to develop as an author. When she took a class …
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Jan. 22-Feb. 28: Barbara Norfleet Photography Exhibition
… by photographer Barbara Norfleet, DRINK: The Pleasures and Perils of Alcohol , will be in the Jerome Liebling Center … on the subject of alcohol. Norfleet is the founder and director of the Harvard Photography Collection, and has been a pioneering artist and thinker in photography …
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Hampshire Alum Asher Edes 03F Awarded Grant for Jewish Community-Building Project
… of 2021. Shmita Hives is a year-long art-, play-, and discussion-based curriculum for adults designed by Edes and artist and farmer Alexander Vickery. The project takes its name from …
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Notable Alumni
Aaron Lansky 73F
… Lansky 73F Aaron Lansky 73F Aaron Lansky is the founder and president of the Yiddish Book Center and author of the Massachusetts Book Award–winning Outwitting … Jews who could not read the language of their parents and grandparents. So he took what he expected would be a …
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Sept. 3: Convocation
… , a grassroots organization that promotes human, economic, and community development in Holyoke, Massachusetts, through projects relating to food, agriculture, and the environment. Other scheduled speakers include … President Jonathan Lash, Dean of Students Byron McCrae, and Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty …
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Tobin Porter-Brown 05F Helps Grow a New Farm
… 05F . "I figured I was going to have to move far away, and that it was going to take a long time." Hampshire's Farm … Center was a grounding force, providing both nourishment and inspiration, to my academic study. I worked with both the livestock and CSA operations and received a lot of valuable skills and …
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